5 Albert Camus Quotes on Punishment

Albert Camus quotes on punishment

61. Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets.

95. A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

128. For capital punishment to be really intimidating, human nature would have to be different; it would have to be as stable and serene as the law itself. But then human nature would be dead.

190. Temporal idols demanding an absolute faith tirelessly decree absolute punishments.

211. The punishment that aims to intimidate an unknown murderer certainly confers a vocation of killer on many another monster about whom there is no doubt.